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Dr. Tereza Petrusková - Tereza is behavioural ecologist, focusing her research on songbird vocalisation and bird territorial behaviour. She is particularly interested in spatial variation in birdsong and factors that affect it, and in functions of specific song structures. Her model bird species include in particular pipits, nightingales and bluethroats, and yellowhammers. She had a key role in establishing the citizen science project on yellowhammer dialects in the Czech Republic. |
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Prof. Adam Petrusek - Adam is an aquatic ecologist by training, whose main model organisms are freshwater crustaceans but he got later involved in various additional ecological and evolutionary projects. Having been a partner of Tereza for almost two decades, research of bird behaviour and vocalization became one of his “extended marital duties”. He is skilled in fieldwork including birdsong recording, data processing, and frequently serves as the “devil’s advocate” when preparing projects or drafting publications. |
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Dr. Pavel Pipek - After finishing his MSc. thesis on behavioural ecology, his focus shifted to invasion ecology (especially of mammals and birds). He got involved in setting up the website for the citizen science project on yellowhammer dialects in the Czech Republic thanks to his experience with webdesign. Soon he realised that research of birdsong dialects and invasion ecology may have more in common than it seems... and the project focusing on populations introduced to New Zealand is the result. |
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Lucie Diblíková, PhD student |
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Hana Kahounová, PhD student |
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Hana Kyliánková, master student |
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Jan Kouřil, master student For his master study he is working on our project of exploring and monitoring the individually distictive first syllable variability of yellowhammers. |
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Javier Oñate Casado, PhD student |
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Belfu Çetinkaya, master student |
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Lily Carolin Helmbold, master student Carolin got in touch with bioacoustics during her bachelor thesis in Freiburg, Germany. For her master thesis (at the Institute for Environmental Studies) she is focusing on the use of individual acoustic monitoring to study endangered species and the geographical variability of songs with the Meadow pipit as her model species. |
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Dr. Abel Souriau Originally from France, Abel has successfully defended his PhD with us in October 2020. He took on the challenge to study the song of two of the most famous European songsters: the Common and the Thrush Nightingales, known for their complex and melodious singing. From the first focus on the curious song copying happening between these species, he extended his PhD project to topics such as the geographical variation of song, or the rather unstudied singing behaviour at the bird’s wintering grounds. His research interests range across behaviour and evolution across various groups, for which bioacoustic brings a fascinating angle of study. |
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Monika |
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Ondrej Belfin |
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Hana Kubátová, |
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